Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (2009 MoMA restoration) (2009 viewing)

Melvin Van Peebles: Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (US 1971). Melvin Van Peebles (Sweetback).

US © 1971 Yeah. P+D+SC+M+ED: Melvin Van Peebles. M: Earth, Wind & Fire. CAST: Melvin Van Peebles (Sweetback), Simon Chuckster (Beetle), Hubert Scales (Mu-Mu), John Dullaghan (Commissioner), Niva Rochelle. 98 min. A MoMA restored print viewed at Cinema Orion, Helsinki 17 April 2009. – A brilliant print. Last time I saw this in 1992, the print was not so hot. – Revisited (the beginning and the end): a film that is more fascinating than I have realized, see Pirkka Kivenheimo's commentary below.

See also: Sweet Sweetback 2010 introduced by Mario Van Peebles.

Pirkka Kivenheimo: African American Cinema (a lecture, 17 April 2009).